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[–] nomenimion 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I still don't see the need for it. What the fuck is wrong with white guys making video games? It's worked until now.

The examples that are usually offered up as models of women designing games, such as Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu, don't exactly fill me with pro-diversity fervor.

Now that I think of it, why doesn't Peter Moore step down so a woman can have his job?

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[–] Gazareth 3 points -1 points (+2|-3) ago 

I still don't see the need for it. What the fuck is wrong with white guys making video games? It's worked until now.

Yeah but sometimes people want better than what "works". And also, it isn't working for some people. There have been studies that suggest kids see role models in the media they consume, and that isn't as useful for role models who aren't the same ethnicity/gender as them, because they don't relate as well with the characters. They feel more like outcasts in society, etc. etc.

I think it has some merit to it, and I don't see how it could do any harm.

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[–] HeavyBrain 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Lol.

I am a white guy.

chell is my rolemodel for when the machines go crazy

CJ is my rolemodel when some government/cop prick fucks with my brother.

Nobody is arguening against the d-word maninly because its already happening and been for years.

The thing is, these characters fit the story, you dont even give a fuck if you play a black chick or an gay Asian guy.

SJW want someting like "I AM BLACK, YOU SEE I AM A POC, O.M.G I AM also pangender" end of game.

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[–] Northvvait ago 

Here's the thing: the barrier to entry for game development has never been lower. In every sense of the term. You had to be a certifiable genius to build the Doom rendering engine back in 1993, but you don't have to be John Carmack to make an impressive game today thanks to incredible computing power in commodity parts.

Feel that your gender/race/religion/nation/shoesize is underrepresented? Nab some open source engines and have at it. My message for those visualizing a world with diversity quotas? Put up or shut up.

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[–] nomenimion 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Video game designers are neither role-models, nor in the business of producing them.

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[–] setitimer 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

EA and UbiSoft are among the most hated companies in the world. Their customer service sucks and their business practices are disgusting. This is just cynical pandering to the SJW crowd to try and salvage their image.

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[–] Thisismyvoatusername 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The jokes on them for caring about their image to the SJWs instead of everyone else.

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[–] shotlord 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

People like to throw the D-word around a lot, but in this case, what has it really done for anyone? There are ways that, at an ideal level, it could be helpful. Unique experiences leading to nuanced storytelling, for example, colorful and realistic dialogue for another. The kind of thing that would be subtle. What we're getting, especially as of late, is diversity for diversity's sake. People shoehorning it in. Quotas, games that aren't fun.

Variety is the spice of life, but you can't just throw seasoning on a pile of manure and expect it to sell.

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[–] nomenimion 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

They're promoting diversity for its own sake, as opposed to just letting it happen naturally over time. As if force-feeding society is preferable to letting it eat voluntarily.

But these are arrogant, vindictive people, and allowing folks of all stripes to rise and fall on their own merit would deprive them of their self-appointed role as the masters of both the so-called victims and their imagined oppressors.

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[–] InvisibleJim 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Peter Moore is so confident in the direction and future of EA that he's selling his stake instead of holding. What does that tell you?

https://twitter.com/petermooreEA/status/640701200392843264

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[–] RedLeader ago  (edited ago)

If there was any sort of systematic discrimination against people who weren't white before the SJWs came along, I wasn't aware of it. I grew up being taught white guilt. I never had any desire in the world to be racist or discriminatory do to it. The shows I watched on TV as a kid gave me the very strong impression that the general public was very much against racism, and only ones who still were were just insignificant old ignorant assholes nearing their graves anyway. I never saw any hint that people who weren't white were held back from accomplishing anything in America.

So to me, the only thing all this talk about white males keeping non-white males out of whatever the hell the SJWs choose to target with their rhetoric does is creates animosity towards white men. This is the same song and dance that has been going on for decades. "Man bad. Woman good." Only now, the strategy has changed a bit. "White man bad. Women and non-white people good."

This coincides with the black lives matter movement creating animosity toward the police, which accomplishes the end of making authority figures look bad, the whole while conflating law enforcement with white men.

This anti-straight agenda has moved in the direction of singling out white males specifically, I believe, because it is the last segment of the population that is not entirely powerless to stop the spread of the SJW ideology. They are now performing character assassination against white men in power, coming at it through multiple avenues (the police force being just one), perverting the rational definitions of words so even logical arguments sound like admissions of some kind of guilt in the process. The goal is to destroy any and all remainders of traditional values so the people will have no choice but to accept totalitarian control. This isn't about the color of skin, it's about pitting the people against each other using whatever means necessary until there is no sense of order and structure left in the culture. Dividing people is how they are easily conquered.

Everything that we have been reading about is just a series of distractions meant to create fear and doubt for the sincerity of others, while the new generation gets indoctrinated with this new degenerate value system. Apathy is death.

I recognize that The Red Pill, the sub I have seen at Reddit, for all the good that it teaches, is still very much part of the SJW agenda. Teaching men to "not give a fuck" about what women think, succeeds in destroying love, just as much as Feminism has succeeded in manipulating women not to love men. That MGTOW bullshit also succeeds in manipulating men into giving up on society and shunning women instead of banding together and bringing the issues to light out in public.

What I see going on is a psyop that is in the latest stage. First was the subtle takeover of Feminism, which indoctrinated women with the victim narrative, and men with the guilt narrative. This made women mistrustful of traditional gentlemen. Next, I see the "red pill" narrative being pushed on men, that women are utterly incapable of loving men because nature, meanwhile women and people who aren't white straight men are being fed the anti-white "white privilege" narrative. These happenings are occurring at times which are too coincidental to be accidents. The result is that straight men begin to distrust women and adopt "game" to get sex because they are starved for emotional intimacy after decades of women being brainwashed into using men only for resources, and everyone else is meant to see that straight men, specifically straight white men, are every bit the monsters they are painted to be in the media.

On the broad scale, nobody is seeing what is happening in its fullest context. We're fed just the right framing of all the facts at all the right times, so that we hate and war with each other.

Social media has been utilized to make us all too anti-social and afraid of discourse in the public eye, while at the same time feeding us all this bullshit.

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[–] CholupaBatman ago 

Memo to Hiring Managers RE: Diversity and inclusion in hiring decisions

Ladies and Gentlemen, It has come to my attention that our dev teams are very white and very male. Our games are selling well and people generally like them (as long as we don't rush them out broken lololol). This is no longer our top priority. Going forward, when building development teams for future projects it will be more important that our staff lounge during lunch hour looks like a "We are the World" photo shoot. This will create some great PR for us with the SJW segment of consumers, and we know that they are the ones buying and playing all of our games. To be clear, experience and education are to be secondary foci - our primary focus must be on a multicultural, multicolored diverse office.

PS Don't forget - it is preferable that as few as possible are cis hetero.